Joe

wheres that??

we have got through loads of robin gear at work over the last few years!!! dont touch them they fall to pieces, now we have got a couple of the new still ones, the standard reach one with the long double sided blade is a top bit of kit, definitely worth the money.

alrite jack, i get on really well with my new england tachyon.

lucky you didn't pay up straight away then!

i totally agree mate im an arb student as welll, and when i say most will never make it, thats because they dont realise how hard the job actually is. it sounds like you do realise that you wont be a top climber straight away, and that you will be mostly just grounding, with the odd smallish climb, which is a much more realistic view than what a lot of the lads on my course think, as many of them think they'll leave college fully experienced. good luck with your career mate.

and that ^

you've got some quality bits of kit:w00t:

when someone was passing me a saw, i went to grab the handle, they turned it round and one of the teeth caught my thumb, gave me a deep gapey cut and made me bleed a lot

nice work mate, i think i've seen you out and about

well said mate:001_cool:

i've been working for a firm for 2 years doing "real" arb work, and i started college in september on an ND forestry & arb, there are a fair few lads on my course who i reckon will drop out before even the first year:ohmy:, then theres a few who are very keen now but i think that the fact that the job is such hard work, they wont last more than 6 months if they do find employment if they complete the course, i reckon that theres probably only about 5 who will become successful arborists on completion of the course out of the 26 that are on the course. i think the problem is that they all think its just nice, easy fun climbs, rather than the reality of mostly not great jobs, long drags to the chipper, hawthorn hedges, rubbish conifer hedges and working when its pi55in8 it down. i think that if it was compulsory for at least a few weeks work experience doing "real" arb work before accepted onto the course, it would show a lot of the lads the reality and save them literally years of their life on a course they wont complete, or is useless to them after a few months of finishing.

haha all the way home!

pmsl:lol:

:blushing:

after being on site, i reckon at least 35%?

the jensen at work sprays a lot more powerfully and a lot less hits the back doors and then the floor than our timberwolf tw150.

thats pretty good for you and the lads on your course, my college hasn't got ant big machines like MEWPS, chippers etc..

thats quality, i'd love a blast!

i'll convert it into firewood for a tenner??

lets hope its your first and last accident you see!!

i used to climb on a butterfly:thumbdown: a lot before i bought myself a elderid tree magic:icon14:, and it is so much more comfy and allows so much more movement than the butterfly. i didn't have my harness with me yesterday and had to climb in a butterfly and i found it really uncomfortable compared to the tree magic. Tree magic all the way:thumbup1:

and avoid chiili sauce at all costs!! how did you do it??

my practical lecturer's mate bought two of them at £300 each:scared1:!! he bought one in for us to have a look at and they are just crap, not even worth £50 each. its unbelievable that someone has got away with manufacturing them and then had the cheek to cover them with husky stickers, even the husky bar isnt a husky bar, its no make with a husky sticker slapped on it!!!!!!:mad1: